Increasing cognitive load to facilitate lie detection: The benefit of recalling an event in reverse order

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-265

  Vrij, Aldert ^a   Mann, Samantha A ^a   Fisher, Ronald P ^b   Leal, Sharon ^a   Milne, Rebecca ^a   Bull, Ray ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Lie detection; Verbal and nonverbal cues to deception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; POLICE; RECALL; RECUMBENCY; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 43749120995     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-007-9103-y     Document Type: Article

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